THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1459, sig. 109-4/1213

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995 - 2 - Neither the Land Office, nor the Minister of Finance, nor any other official, have exerted pressure on me to raise the capital charge, if the advance levy was fixed at 72 million Ke., without interest, the Finance Commission of the Ministry of Finance has estimated the coburgishe Vermöglich on a multiple of this levy. On condition, as then in the negotiations which the Coburgers were to make available for sale, a price of 35 million Kc could be offered to the Cobourgers by the Bodenant for the entire possession, i.e. half of the capital levy, I declare: I cannot say anything about that. Land Office and General Financial Directorate were two separate factors of the state administration. With my predisposition, I was dependent on the ground office and the ground manager var was not dependent on me. I have never been friends with liykl, he was introduced to me by the lawyer Dr. Janicky. Ieh suggested him as a coercive administrator because he seemed to me to have the most internal knowledge of valence. The information about him was favorable. However, a final assessment of the tax was not yet available, so that Nykl had to stretch with an unknown size. When asked why, as president, I had gone to the final capital dispute full four years after the death of the deceased Prince Philip, I explained: I had to devastate the findings of the audit commission of the ministry about the values. This var end of l925, I remember, has not yet arrived. I didn't have the right to press it either, but that wouldn't help me. During my entire work as President, I have received from no one a communication that the provisional asset levy, which is the largest in the Woge dor Hodza-Weiden-Aktion about 1 million square metres of best wood, has been taken away from dom Be- Be- sein, veleher since l922, but I would say that if I had heard of ciner of such unhourly deforestation,